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Headline: Long lost log.
Display MoreAn enormous Viking poo may the longest human faeces ever recorded.
The long-lost turd was excavated from a now-abandoned Viking settlement – and measures in at a whopping 20cm, or 8 inches.
If that wasn’t enough, it’s also a girthy number at 5cm wide, or 2 inches.
The poo – or “coprolite” as scientists will call it – was found way back in 1972.
In fact, it was discovered in Britain, below the site of what would become a Lloyds Bank in York.
It was dug up by excavators from the York Archaeological Trust (YAT), and is now on display at the Jorvik Viking Centre.
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